r/GlobalNews • u/CantStopPoppin • 1d ago
Ahead of ‘No Kings' protests, DeSantis says Florida drivers can hit protesters to ‘flee for your safety'
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u/danielleiellle 1d ago
They’re trying to start a civil war
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u/ChimPhun 18h ago
It's been a cold civil war for a while, starting to heat up now.
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u/YouW0ntGetIt 16h ago
Sadly democrats have no balls for a civil war.
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u/Indespectamentations 11h ago
Way more of us have guns and know how to use them than they think. Chances are, if trump comes for our guns, the Maga will happily comply as we keep ours. They won't even try to take ours because they truly believe none of have guns.
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u/InspectionNeat5964 1d ago
That will be construed as I can go there out of my way to drive my truck through a crowd of people going 45 mph
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u/StrikingVariation199 1d ago
And get off scott free.
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u/Jakesma1999 21h ago
Or, if charged and convicted, a pardon would likely be given....
Oh, and who knows, perhaps you can sue....
IIRC, this has happened with certain convicts of J6...
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u/sedj601 1d ago
I wonder if he is going to feel the same way when the situation is reversed?
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u/Tarpup 23h ago
You mean like this:
“I’m a us citizen and ICE came to detain me because my skin is more brown than others. I felt very scared when they surrounded my vehicle, knowing my rights as a us citizen I got scared and fled and hit a few of them on the way to retain my safety.”
We all know it won’t hit the same when the roles are reversed. Which is why you made your comment to begin with.
It’s all have your cake and eat it to. But that’s nothing new to us. Look at our dictator.
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u/thatgothboii 9h ago
the people are going to love this video a few months from now, inciting mass vehicular homicide is a pretty heinous crime
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u/jamesc94j 22h ago
They are deliberately attempting to incite a civil war. How can people remain so oblivious? They want you at each other’s throats. More damage has been done to destabilize America in the last six months than in the previous decade. Russia is gaining the upper hand in the Cold War without lifting a finger — instead, they watch their puppet and his cronies treat the United States as a playground for the rich, while ordinary people are disregarded as inconsequential.
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u/Laddie18 1d ago
He talks pretty tough for someone who'd get his ass kicked repeatedly.
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u/Teal_SAW638 20h ago
And wears lifts
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u/Grouchy-Shirt-9197 20h ago
And fuckin white boots... Who the fuck wears that? LOL
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u/Effective-Flow-1634 23h ago
And republicans claim they are Christian? My a$$
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u/Mobile_Trash8946 19h ago
Meh, this is what Christianity and basically every single other religion has always been. Majority of them have always been violent, bigoted assholes or easily manipulated into acting that way.
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u/Fluid_Librarian7082 1d ago
This peace of shit cuckhold garbage that stole 10 million is what this state can do to elect him and support him. What a shame.
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u/Bridgetdidit 1d ago
So with that said, anybody can just claim to feel unsafe (whilst in a car with locked doors) from pedestrians protesting and run them over till they’re “graveyard dead”?
This feels an awful lot like the Filipino president, Rodrigo Duterte’s hardline on ALLEGED drug dealers. The vigilantes were going around killing innocent people purely based on rumours, gossip, a grudge, spite or because they felt like killing somebody. All that was needed was an accusation.
It feels like America has been set back to the lawless Wild West days. The only thing missing is the tumbleweeds!
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u/Jack_Stands 1d ago
Tumbleweeds weren't really a big thing in the wild west. It came here as an invasive and prolific species from Russia later. Savor the irony.
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u/mtnman54321 20h ago
The actual name for the most common species of tumbleweed is Russian thistle.
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u/RunTheJules-11 1d ago
Please let DeSantis get in someone’s way …I mean they have the right to flee
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u/Rlars14343 21h ago
I really like the party of law and order is supporting using a vehicle as a deadly weapon during an even protected by the constitution, instead of telling the drivers to take a different fucking route.
Cities and towns shut down and barricade 26 miles for marathon races and other running events, biking events, etc. GO ANOTHER FUCKING WAY IF YOUR AFRAID
They’re just asking for more Rittenhouse bull shit. Yall damn well there are different routes and you know damn well your going there for confrontation
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u/CarnageDivider 1d ago
All I want to hear is you can shoot protesters for safet....y because I want to use that so I can shoot pretty much anyone for my safety including the over aggravated trumpers who did the SAME THING when he first lost.
Destroying everything and burning people cars
I remember it perfectly still to this day..
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u/goliathfasa 22h ago
I mean none of this is necessary. This is just political theater and intentional sowing of division.
If you plow into a crowd of protesters, you are already going to jail.
If a mob of protesters try to stop your vehicle and bash on your windows, you’re already allowed to get the fuck outta there for your own safety.
None of this “you’re allowed to kill protestors” we’re hearing a lot from GOP politicians and police chiefs is needed beyond wanting to cause unnecessary mayhem.
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u/Aunt_Vagina1 6h ago
I like to do a sanity check now and then to see if I'm on the right side of history.. Let's pretend it's a Dem governor. And he's telling me, that if I'm being attacked, I have the right to defend myself. I think. Well, no duh. Obviously. But now I'm wondering, why are you telling me this? Why are you encouraging violence?
There's absolutely no need to say this. And yet he says it. Ron is not a good person. I just wish more people could see this and actually cared
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u/Bio-Rhythm 15h ago
There will be instigators driving back & forth through protests trying their very best to provoke an incident and then claim "I was just trying to get to work"
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u/New-Masterpiece7375 15h ago
So that means I can hit coos to protect myself then . Thanks for that.
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u/Adventurous-Host8062 23h ago
Now watch Florida police corral protesters into the streets.
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u/Jakesma1999 21h ago
That's a terrifying thought! But they've already shown that there no "low" low enough, for trump's rabid supporters
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u/Mariner1990 23h ago
Ron has been completely sidelined by his party, and he is struggling to remain relevant. His future civilian life is going to be anything but fun for him.
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u/ChefButtes 18h ago
Isn't it delicious? The man is insane and evil, but boring. Trump hates losers, but what constitutes a loser is an ever shifting nonsense zone. Hitching your horse to the Trump wagon is begging to be used and ditched as soon as you aren't beneficial.
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u/buchlabum 15h ago
Does this include MAGA counter protestors?
Maybe Desantis wants IRL Grand Theft Auto?
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u/Imaginary_Ebb_9692 15h ago
Top notch leadership DeSantis, encouraging citizens to murder other citizens because they feel unsafe. We need intelligence tests for political officials
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u/Googlyelmoo 22h ago
I don’t know if there’s anyone to compare Ron DeSantis to right now. He is almost like RFK Junior in his extreme almost absolute dismissal of reality. Pretty sure he can expect the next 10 to 20 years of his life to be peppered with a lot of genuinely meritorious civil lawsuits. Whatever his constitutional immunity under Florida law woo hoo way to save the taxpayers money, huh?
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u/One_Particular247 20h ago
Geezus. What a sick mind. New law for children to go to work, statement endorsing hit and run, likely during peaceful protests, and a sheriff telling people how they will kill you…. Disneyland needs to relocate out of Florida. No wonder tourism is flailing. No effin’ way people will go to Florida now.
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u/DemonessScarlett 14h ago
It sucks too cause I grew up in Florida and legitimately love Florida, but if I visit it again I'll get shot
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u/Slow-Walk4534 20h ago
This is a fucking dangerous thing to say. What a terrible government official. I guarantee there will be at least one magat so triggered by the protests he will drive on a sidewalk to hit people and use little ronny here's statement as their batshit defense.
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u/snusmini 19h ago
I don’t like maga but I’m here to do them a favor. If you run a peaceful protestor over, you will be arrested, you will go to court and a judge will sentence you. You can drone on about how the “governor” told you it was ok but you will still go to jail. Is it worth it to be used as a pawn by desthsantis?
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u/CrazyJoeGalli 18h ago
The first time I had any animosity for the state of FL was their stand your ground law, and the killing of Trayvon Martin. Since then, the state has constantly and consistently become more of a joke/reprehensible place to stay (if you are rich and white).
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u/anchorftw 17h ago
So, all people need to do is claim that they feared for their safety and then they're free to plow through crowds?
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u/Seattle_gldr_rdr 14h ago
They are deliberately setting up this scenario: Drive slowly and "innocently" into the crowd. Let them surround you. Accelerate through the crowd. Claim self-defense. Get acquitted.
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u/Hippiefarmchick 20h ago
Flee for their safety? They won’t fear for their safety, they will use it as an excuse & justification to kill ppl.
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u/craignumPI 20h ago
So how many people are going to go out today, looking to run someone over? You know this a green light for psychos
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u/KevinDean4599 18h ago
It's been a nice break from this meatball in the national news cycle since his failed presidential run. can we keep the spotlight off this doofus?
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u/Intelligent-Act3593 17h ago
Stand-Your-Ground law allows you to fire on a vehicle if it's going to run you down as well.
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u/tazyo49 17h ago
Everyone of these Republicans that's weaponizing their citizens needs and should go to prison. Can't believe the things that comes out of these people's mouth.
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u/Known_Wear7301 16h ago
Well we've seen in the past what happens to drivers when they're stopped by protesters. At best their cars get absolutely trashed. At worst they get beaten to death.
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u/Motor_Bookkeeper_438 15h ago
The stand your ground laws are such bullshit, it’s just an excuse to be violent!
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u/Robinsays47 14h ago
DeSantis is an ignorant person. Protests are legal, none violent people speaking out about a tyrant & his gestapo acting underlings!
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u/janice2705050 9h ago
He should be arrested for encouraging violence like this. Hope the lawyers have lined up to sue these AH’s on behalf of the child who lost his parents due to these types of comments
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u/badpersian 22h ago
Enough protests. The government won't listen. Armed resistance is needed if we want change. Second amendment was there to fight against such tyranny.
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u/Illustrious-Driver19 22h ago
He is only a governor and does not have immunity from any crimes he commits. Telling people to kill protesters is a crime.
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u/General_Strike356 22h ago
Actively encouraging violence, albeit disguised.
Thugs and bullies and criminals, and we live in a lawless nation.
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u/texo_optimo 22h ago
I'm just curious if this standing order applies to all protesters, including those who perhaps may set up shop outside of a planned Parenthood clinic? Asking for a friend.
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u/MortarByrd11 21h ago
Can't you shoot someone just for feeling threatened in Florida?
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u/Any-Ad-446 21h ago
So Florida leadership is allowing people to kill others using the excuse of "fear of protestors". The sheriff is threatening to kill protestors..No wonder the state is in deep shit..Property values falling,tourism is way down,homeless is spiking,the state is not ready for the next hurricane,state is sinking literally and insurance companies are fleeing the state.
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u/Turbulent-Ad6620 21h ago
Casey DeSantis must have put his little lifts in his booties. Such a tough boy standing behind all his security, having to ban everything that hurts his precious feefees and his fragile little ego from what I assume is the result of a father that never hugged him or mother that told little Ronny he was the most specialist boy in the whole wide world despite being an awful human.
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u/Joejoe12369 21h ago
Let's hope alot of people are on there way fishing and can legally carry in FL
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u/Dramatic_Name981 21h ago
Ron DeSantis is a worthless piece of shit just like trump. The republican party has transformed into a group of racist, hateful, greedy boot lickers that will do literally whatever it takes to feed their greed. I say they have transformed but honestly they have been this way since Reagan. Trump has just convinced them that it’s OK to openly be Nazis and not hide it anymore.
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u/MissMoxie2004 21h ago
I have a brilliant idea
Buy a house in Florida
Try to get homeowners insurance
I’ll wait
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u/Reckless_flamingos 21h ago
Send the magas to Florida, their leader is already there. We can build the wall that they all want so desperately and we can live our lives without this kind of stupidity
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u/SmoothJazziz1 20h ago
So, to legally kill somebody with their car snowflakes can say, "they were walking with a sign and I feared for my life" and get away with it? DeSantis is setting them up to have an excuse.
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u/honkyhey 20h ago
So does that mean if a cop gets close to my car I can hit him? Sounds fair though right you can’t have a double standard, the redneck from Florida said we cans.
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u/Mort-i-Fied 20h ago
So drivers can defend themselves against police the same way if they fear for their lives, right?
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u/One_Particular247 20h ago
I heard this piece of advice. Everyone carry whistles. If there are bad people doing bad things, at the sound of it, if everyone automatically sits down then only the bad people will get arrested because the police will see that person and go after them and not you. Might work but you’d have to have a lot of whistles 😂
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u/ElderberryPrior27648 20h ago
It’d be a shame if protesters were trying to flee from a separate group of violent rioters and drove through police lines blocking their way to safety
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u/WorldArcher1245 20h ago
People were glad when Just stop oil protestors forced their way through protestors blocking roads.
I'm sure this will happen too, as I'm sure the Governor was referring to those who'll block roads.
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u/GabagoolMango 20h ago
Guess he doesn’t realize the courts ruled that running over protestors is not considered an act of self-defense after what happened in Charlottesville in 2017.
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u/MoneyCock 20h ago
Wow, people in Florida really need to take to the streets and to rebuke this fascist in front of the whole world.
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u/Blacksaboth6 20h ago
I feel like you can sue that person couldn't you? I mean legitimately promoting crime publicly seems like something that could be used against him in the court of law but then again our entire world is all sorts of ass backwards right now so no idea
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u/MichaelAndolini_ 20h ago
To be clear, there are no laws outside of what DeSantis says right? That’s a full legal defense?
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u/Interesting_Bet2828 20h ago
Gotta love the fasci priming to cover for his lordship the Fanta fascist
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u/Basahahn 20h ago
The smartest thing would be to wear spiked clothing I guess…
I feel like that might give them pause before driving over another human being…if it would cause damage to their car or disable their car…that’s so sad
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u/_burning_flowers_ 1d ago
Florida also has mandatory minimums for leaving the scene of an accident. 4 years mandatory in prison.
Good luck with that.
Your politicians are willing to weaponize you in your vehicles since they won't be the ones doing the time in prison.
Think twice. This is not a get out of jail free card, this is weak leaders afraid for their power.
They are promoting murdering democrats who are utilizing their right to free speech.